When does Plastic become Classic?

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Originally Posted by falconator

obviously a few boxes must be ticked to a constitute a classic,and it would be hard to predict for the future without a crystal ball.My old man took his split windscreen kombi to the wreckers and i think they gave him 50 bucks for it,in the 80s.Now they are highly sort after.
I knew of a bloke that had a wb statesman with near 0 ks on the clock,he just backed it out,then back in,for twenty years.If he was after a investment ,he should have bought something with Bathurst heritage.Hind sight is cheap.

Hind sight is cheap , your right
The main problem lately is sellers assume that something will in years to come be a collectable or rare and are selling in todays money things over inflated
I sold a genuine sandman pvan bout 20 years ago and struggled to $900 and it was a driver,now fast forward 20 years , yeah there worth alot more, but who is to say id still have it, it mite have been crashed, rusted out or even stolen by now
Then add in yearly insurance, rego costs, maintenance costs, the list goes on
People have to add in real world costs, not just a buy 1 price , sell another

If ya bought something old for lets say 5K today, in a year add a grand and a half for costs, then multiply by ten (over ten years)it would owe you 20K
But generally wont be worth that